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Can you even imagine the chaos of that first day following the resurrection? For three long days, Jesus’s friends had been wrapped in a heart-wrenching cloud of grief after watching the brutal murder of their Lord—gripped by anxiety and fear, hardly…
“I Am.” It is such a simple and profound and mind-boggling truth: literally everything in our world will change or fade away except our God. Only He is ever-present and ever-unchanging. The world’s ideas about Him have changed throughout the ages, and our relationship with Him…
I’m a total rule-follower. Growing up, I was the goody-goody who used my manners, who never once got detention, who trembled inside and fought back tears at even the slightest hint of a reprimand. I nursed guilt and regret for every errant word…
How is your Lent going, so far, sisters? Do you, like me, get frustrated with yourself sometimes because you feel like you should be doing a whole lot more? Do you feel like the moments you’ve intended to renew yourself in this season…
Ah, jealousy. That little insidious little soul killer. Every time I think I’m doing well, it trips me up again. I catch a glimpse of that lovely mom with the beautiful outfit at the school and realize that I don’t…
There’s a lot of talk about demons in today’s readings. Being possessed by demons, talking to demons, driving out demons . . . . We don’t exactly walk around these days witnessing sidewalk exorcisms. But spiritual warfare is still alive and…
OPERATIONAL STAFF JENNA GUIZAR FOUNDER | CREATIVE DIRECTOR Jenna Guizar is a wife and mama in sunny Arizona. She loves spending time with her husband, her daughters, and their son. After falling in love with the Lord through deep, faithful…
And you, Child, will be called the prophet of the most high . . . . These words sound unremarkable, even normal to many of us from our vantage here in the year 2014. But when Zechariah spoke them so long…
Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Today, we celebrate the fact that a tiny red newborn—delivered in less than desirable circumstances to a young peasant girl from the backwoods town of Nazareth—was no ordinary baby. And as such,…
The other week I took my son for a checkup at our faith-based family practice, where we are very (very) lucky to see wonderful doctors who share our values. Our family deals with a number of different issues (rare anxiety…
Readings like today’s—the ones that urge us to go above and beyond—give me a little bit of a guilt complex. Saint Paul, who authored the First Reading, might’ve had a ton of zeal and passion, but my personality is quite…
“Leave the dead to bury their own dead.” I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear this verse I get all indignant and think, Where is your compassion, Jesus?! This man just lost his father! Don’t you care?!? Technically, his…
